Mysterious
and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on
her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia.
He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other
students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though
Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce–and goes out of his way to make that very
clear–she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find
out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.

Dangerously
exciting and darkly romantic, Fallen is a page turning thriller and the
ultimate love story.

For quite some time, I eyed
Fallen every time I saw it in a bookstore. A cover that pretty is a total
head-turner and thankfully, what's inside is just as beautiful.

Luce Price was a typical teenager
on the surface but ever since she was little, she had been haunted by what she
called the Shadows. She told her parents about it and, as expected, they tried
to help her by bringing her to eye and ear doctors, and eventually to shrinks,
but they had done nothing to help eliminate the dark figures until she grew tired of the
meds and sessions and just decided to pretend that she was already fine. She
was doing well until one night, the Shadows hurt her and killed the guy she
liked. Everyone except Luce's parents and her friend, Callie, believed that she
was at fault for the death and branded her a troubled kid, so she was sent to a
reform school. Luce thought it was the end for her until she laid her eyes on
Daniel Grigori who was hot-one-minute-and-cold-the-next, but she never could
have imagined the reason why...

I read the book twice before
making this review. The first time, I gave it four out of five. I was planning
to give it a three because I found it totally dragging, particularly the middle
part, but the ending saved it for me. But on the second time, the story just enthralled
me and I enjoyed it a whole lot more.

No story is perfect though, and I
had two problems with this one. Number one: the characters were not developed
enough. They had to be taken at face value, and I think number two explains
why: the book was written like a movie. Most of the characters’ thoughts and,
at times, even the setting were not elaborated enough. But the good thing about
that is that it makes it easier to picture the scenes in your head because
there are fewer things to include in what you imagine, and reading Fallen was
just like watching a movie.

Nonetheless, this was a really
good book and I’m planning to read it again before going on to the sequel when
I get to buy it!...AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE MOVIE! ♥My favorite part: Daniel showing his wings to Luce. That was so heavenly. "Twitterpated" is probably an understatement of how I felt while reading that.

Long ago,
in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In
a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is
brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of
Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s
protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a
family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a
land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here
is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards,
who come together in a time of grim omens.

Here an
enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce
wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his
sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most
treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal,
victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies
hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of
conflicts: the game of thrones.

I first heard about A Game of Thrones when some people I
followed on Twitter posted about how good the HBO series was. I google-d it and
found out that it was based on a book so I decided to read first before
watching, and that was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

The story starts with the depiction of the lives of the
Starks in Winterfell. It was generally peaceful until King Robert, Lord Eddard
Stark's good friend, offered him something that he wanted to refuse at first
but, thanks to a terrible turn of events, ended up accepting.

I totally regret not giving more time for reading this book
(I read this for four weeks *kicks self*) because the story was really
fast-paced and unpredictable. At first it was quite confusing, though that's
probably because of my lack of imagination. I would recommend reading a quarter
of the book THEN watching the first episode of the TV series so that you can
associate faces with most of the names. Also, I think another reason for that
confusion of mine was because Martin jumped from one person's part of the story
to another in every chapter, but I got used to it soon enough.

In conclusion, I love how there's a perfect mix of reality
and fantasy in this story. Halfway through, I told myself I won't read the next
book in A Song of Ice and Fire until after months, but I changed my mind when I
got to the ending which was a total cliffhanger! So I would recommend buying
the sequel, A Clash of Kings, before you finish this one.

My favorite part: Every time Tyrion displays his wit and humor, and Arya being the bad-ass that she is.